Named in honor of Colonel Vasilii Yevgrafovich Samarskii-Bykhovets (Васи́лий Евгра́фович Сама́рский-Быховец) (7 November 1803 – 31 May 1870), Russian mining engineer and Chief of Staff of the Russian Corps of Mining Engineers, for granting access to some mineral samples for study. The element samarium, isolated from the mineral, is thus also named after him.

Kuz'menko, M.V., Akelin, N.A., Sokolova, R.I. (1969) Regularities of the distribution of tantalum and niobium in endocontact pegmatite and the parent granites. In Features of the Distribution of Rare Elements in Pegmatites. Izdat. Nauka, Moscow, 44-78. (in Russian, khlopinite identical with samarskite)

Mineralogical Magazine (1980): 43: 1054.

Sugitani, Y., Suzuki, Y., Nagashima, K. (1984) Recovery of the original samarskite structure by heating in a reducing atmosphere. American Mineralogist: 69: 377-379.

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Mineralogical Record: 21: 429.; Simmons W B, Hanson S H, Falster A U (2006) Samarskite-(Yb): a new species of the samarskite group from the Little Patsy pegmatite, Jefferson County, Colorado, The Canadian Mineralogist 44, 1119-1125